EP4254977A4 - Electronic device comprising image sensor and operating method thereof - Google Patents

Electronic device comprising image sensor and operating method thereof Download PDF

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EP4254977A4
EP4254977A4 EP23705465.5A EP23705465A EP4254977A4 EP 4254977 A4 EP4254977 A4 EP 4254977A4 EP 23705465 A EP23705465 A EP 23705465A EP 4254977 A4 EP4254977 A4 EP 4254977A4
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electronic device
image sensor
operating method
operating
sensor
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French (fr)
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EP4254977A1 (en
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Yunjeong KIM
Jaehyoung Park
Kawang KANG
Dongsoo Kim
Inah MOON
Shuichi Shimokawa
Yeotak Youn
Suhyog KWON
Youngbae SON
Jonghoon WON
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Samsung Electronics Co Ltd
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Publication of EP4254977A1 publication Critical patent/EP4254977A1/en
Publication of EP4254977A4 publication Critical patent/EP4254977A4/en
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N23/00—Cameras or camera modules comprising electronic image sensors; Control thereof
    • H04N23/60—Control of cameras or camera modules
    • H04N23/67—Focus control based on electronic image sensor signals
    • H04N23/672—Focus control based on electronic image sensor signals based on the phase difference signals
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N23/00—Cameras or camera modules comprising electronic image sensors; Control thereof
    • H04N23/60—Control of cameras or camera modules
    • H04N23/667—Camera operation mode switching, e.g. between still and video, sport and normal or high- and low-resolution modes
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N25/00—Circuitry of solid-state image sensors [SSIS]; Control thereof
    • H04N25/40—Extracting pixel data from image sensors by controlling scanning circuits, e.g. by modifying the number of pixels sampled or to be sampled
    • H04N25/42—Extracting pixel data from image sensors by controlling scanning circuits, e.g. by modifying the number of pixels sampled or to be sampled by switching between different modes of operation using different resolutions or aspect ratios, e.g. switching between interlaced and non-interlaced mode
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01L—SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10
    • H01L27/00—Devices consisting of a plurality of semiconductor or other solid-state components formed in or on a common substrate
    • H01L27/14—Devices consisting of a plurality of semiconductor or other solid-state components formed in or on a common substrate including semiconductor components sensitive to infrared radiation, light, electromagnetic radiation of shorter wavelength or corpuscular radiation and specially adapted either for the conversion of the energy of such radiation into electrical energy or for the control of electrical energy by such radiation
    • H01L27/144—Devices controlled by radiation
    • H01L27/146—Imager structures
    • H01L27/14643—Photodiode arrays; MOS imagers
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N25/00—Circuitry of solid-state image sensors [SSIS]; Control thereof
    • H04N25/10—Circuitry of solid-state image sensors [SSIS]; Control thereof for transforming different wavelengths into image signals
    • H04N25/11—Arrangement of colour filter arrays [CFA]; Filter mosaics
    • H04N25/13—Arrangement of colour filter arrays [CFA]; Filter mosaics characterised by the spectral characteristics of the filter elements
    • H04N25/134—Arrangement of colour filter arrays [CFA]; Filter mosaics characterised by the spectral characteristics of the filter elements based on three different wavelength filter elements
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N25/00—Circuitry of solid-state image sensors [SSIS]; Control thereof
    • H04N25/40—Extracting pixel data from image sensors by controlling scanning circuits, e.g. by modifying the number of pixels sampled or to be sampled
    • H04N25/46—Extracting pixel data from image sensors by controlling scanning circuits, e.g. by modifying the number of pixels sampled or to be sampled by combining or binning pixels

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EP23705465.5A 2022-01-21 2023-01-20 Electronic device comprising image sensor and operating method thereof Pending EP4254977A4 (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (3)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
KR20220009413 2022-01-21
KR1020220066308A KR20230113109A (en) 2022-01-21 2022-05-30 Electronic device including image sensor and operating method thereof
PCT/KR2023/000996 WO2023140678A1 (en) 2022-01-21 2023-01-20 Electronic device comprising image sensor and operating method thereof

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EP4254977A1 EP4254977A1 (en) 2023-10-04
EP4254977A4 true EP4254977A4 (en) 2024-04-03

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WO2019050743A1 (en) * 2017-09-08 2019-03-14 Apple Inc. Image capture device, pixel, and method providing improved phase detection auto-focus performance
US20200358971A1 (en) * 2019-05-07 2020-11-12 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Image sensor with pixels including photodiodes sharing floating diffusion region
KR20210099379A (en) * 2020-02-04 2021-08-12 삼성전자주식회사 The electronic device and the method for performing auto focus

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US20150312537A1 (en) * 2014-04-23 2015-10-29 Omnivision Technologies, Inc. Image sensor with scaled filter array and in-pixel binning
US20150358562A1 (en) * 2014-06-09 2015-12-10 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba Solid-state imaging device
WO2019050743A1 (en) * 2017-09-08 2019-03-14 Apple Inc. Image capture device, pixel, and method providing improved phase detection auto-focus performance
US20200358971A1 (en) * 2019-05-07 2020-11-12 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Image sensor with pixels including photodiodes sharing floating diffusion region
KR20210099379A (en) * 2020-02-04 2021-08-12 삼성전자주식회사 The electronic device and the method for performing auto focus

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